McCallum to give poetry reading

September 20, 2011

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She is the author of three individual collections of poetry: This Strange Land (2011), Song of Thieves (2003), and The Water Between Us (1999). A fourth book, The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems, was published this year in the United Kingdom.

Her poems have been published in magazines in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Caribbean, Latin America and Israel. Her personal essays have appeared in Antioch Review, Creative Nonfiction, Witness, and elsewhere.

McCallum has received awards, grants, and fellowships from the NEA, Cave Canem, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize.

She has taught at the University of Memphis, the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Maine, and widely at workshops and conferences. She is originally from Kingston, Jamaica.

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